Do you ever made a campaign based on a music? Do you incorporate music on your game? What inspires you to play?
Personally, I must say that I made entire compaings based on musics from Of Monsters and Men:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCHUw7ACS8o
>>43596707
For example, look at this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Gr6HBMDu0
>Ancient sescient artifact made by a forgotten civilization.
>Looking from distance, you would think that its an small island of black rock, with a fortress on top of it made from the same materials, but looking closely, you would perceive that the entire structure is an enormous construct with the shape of a whale.
I put one of these on my setting, and it became the moving base of the PCs.
bump with other thing that I used.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBkkplOiSjQ
>Mysterious tower that appear every full moon on a hidden valley deep inside the mountains, next to a lake.
>This tower is alive, and is made out of rock, wood and flesh.
>Legends say that on its top is the Tree of The World, where an ancient dragon used to live and tell stories to some selected people.
>Each floor on the tower is unique, and you can find there all the kind of enviroment, where memebrs os the fair folk live.
This campaign started when a powerful whitch "stole" the tower from the previous owner, basically turning him into her servant, and his dragon son into a small statue that his father carried on a bag. The whitch had kidnapped one of the sons of the king of a near city, wanting to turn him into her new servant. The PCs steped down to bring him back and stop the imbalance with the otherworld, caused by that sorceress, and had to climb each one of the multiples floors of the mistical tower.
>>43596707
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>>43597658
OMM makes some really great music that has a very role-play game aesthetic. But you should broaden your horizons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDYdM0MMl4Q
This one comes back to me over and over when I'm thinking about WoD characters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjyGkvNUtRU
Halsey's music is all very exceptional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtDs353zelU
Maddji's debut album (which is in Sami, but easily translatable if you're interested in the lyrics) is fantastic and ethereal and very much captures the feeling of being in northern forests and tundras.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0PvZGVPiJU
Wardruna is another excellent source, but Helvegen is one of my personal favorites. Their rendition is incredible, and it's traditional. Before a battle, skalds would offer this song as obeisance to Odin for his intervention in battle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAPhp9LYq44
I heard this song and already know this guy is going places. It speaks on every level.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA1AaWEdhH8
This one really evokes the way I view most Mages. They all have to feel kind of like they're sloughing through a molasses of unreality sticking to the bones of fact.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaH4W1rY9us
I listen to a lot of folk music, most of which deals with the struggles of modern life. But there are certain songwriters who can capture eternal struggles with timeless lyrics. Ben Howard is one of those.
I use music a lot, although I am careful about what I force on my playing group. Some of them don't have very expansive musical palettes and just won't understand why I am playing Johnny Cash's The Man Comes Around during a Shadowrun session, apropos as it may be.
Bolero is the quintessential adventuring song, I think.
https://youtu.be/r30D3SW4OVw
Another heroic-sounding thing by Ravel, done in 8-bit sound. Sounds like a DOS adventure game.
https://youtu.be/sP6eaQX8_90
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>>43597658
These seems very nice OP.
Also, thanks for the musical sugestions.
>>43596707
For sure. Sometimes more literally i.e. Heavy Mythril/Hail and Kill. I've found a few genres of movie and vidya game soundtracks generally make for good background music for tabletop. For example; westerns fit well into a lot of my fantasy campaigns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx3ajYfbzcw
>>43598038
>Halsey
Confirmed for 15 year old girl
Music won't necessarily inspire me to create an entire campaign, but it will give me things I want to do:
Listening to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16VpZ7w0KpY
I imagined alarms blaring, emergency lights rotating in the background of an otherwise dark deck, and bulkheads groaning under mysterious pressure.
Same campaign, this different song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TTl4d5IqJo
made me want to set an action, almost James Bond sequence onboard a less terror-filled space station after listening to it. I'm honestly surprised Hybrid doesn't get more love in /tg/ music threads.
A lot of songs I like associating with npcs upon listening to them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3lBF2h-Pl0 went to a formerly friendly possessed psyker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhBQvgW-jpw inspired an elf face in SR.
sounds like some lame overplayed radio music sorry op im jus salty
>>43596707
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjKI_U9ENwU
I want to DM a Spelljammer Space Pirate mercenary game based on this album.
>>43601132
Some people like 15 years old girls f.am
>>43601132
S-s-sorry to challenge your pr-pr-preconceived notions, b-b-baka.
>>43596707
>/tg/ Music
Years of threads like this taught me that /tg/ have litrally zero taste in music. even /v/ is better
>>43606278
Except for you, oh grand vizier of taste, right?
>>43596707
Oh, hello my little goldmine.
Personally every single time I have to design a char for a cyberpunk game I start looking at Grimes' videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv9YoYCKNoE
I've always loved how Hotline Miami-esque music fits ancient combat. I always picture duels, combats and whatever when I'm listening to it. It's not the most traditional but well... works for me I guess
For example this; from 2:50 onwards it's just an overwhelming feeling of letting go. I just picture a bunch of friends and companions, surrounded on all sides, knowing they're probably gonna fall, sword in hand and smiling, charging into combat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt2qgY31ziE
>>43596707
I ran a Black Crusade game once
>players are all Noise Marines
>names include Canis Scrutator, Alea Glacis, Quinquaginta Denariis
>see wut they did ther
And that was how they set out to fight an Ork Kult of Speed, Diggaz Wiv Attitude, on a desert world called Krumpton
>>43606278
Show was your good taste them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hJ7CxNcZR8
This was the song that a Wizard wrote before failing an astral projection spell from a scroll and being cut from her body.
The PCs found her long dead in her bed, whit a scroll on the ceiling directly above her.Actually, the dean of the school of magic wrote the scroll wrong in porpouse to kill her because she was in love whit another man.
>>43606350
I actually really like Grimes.
>cyberpunk characters
>this video
I can see why.
>>43607104
This is even better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FH-q0I1fJY
>>43601132
>writing about romance is for 15 year old girls
40 year old virgin detected
SotC has some great dungeon-exploring music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX-pYPqhbcg
>>43607220
There isn't a single thing related to SotC that is not great.not even my dick when thinking about it
>>43607168
Shit.
I need to make music and music videos so I have an excuse to have a shit ton of crazy outfits and a reason to dress up in them.
>>43607258
If you're the partying type, just go to the most eccentric hipster ones.
While people there are usually quite boring, it can be offset by going there with friends, and it's the perfect excuse to try strange outfits
>>43598262
>pic combined with https://youtu.be/sP6eaQX8_90
Aaaand now I want to make the art for my setting look like it came out of a SNES RPG or something.
>>43606372
Ah, New Retrowave.
Some good stuff out there for sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go4chV8qD6E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m1N4gWsbHE
But some of the best music for getting pumped, in my opinion, comes from Killer Instinct. Mick Gordon's work transcends the usual schlock we get with fighting games and really rises above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ckR822Wu4k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB_MUSbR-sA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYAwOhDgCbY
He knows no restrictions in how he mashes up genres and styles and it's pretty goddamn glorious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7oLADZ9Bqs
Karen O's music in general is fucking amazing. Anything by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs is a crowd pleaser. But her latest is really...something else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o4l10CtN7g
Dan Auerbach is in like four bands, but he always delivers great stuff. It all riffs off classics and the lyrics aren't usually anything to write home about, but the presentation is always world class.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgB-GyWJeXM
The remaster/remix of FFVI's soundtrack always gets me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DgsU3dnPwY
And then there are things like Emancipator. This is the sort of thing I put on during games. Nobody really notices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6PDBl8_4Cc
Even modern pop can suit the need.
>>43596707
I'll make a GURPS game out of this. The players will be faeries of the forest caught between the bees and the birds. They ought to stop the bloodshed. Failing to do so might end them up on one side of the conflict or the other.
Also good music. Tips, anon.
>>43601264
Not him, but seriously?
Seems more traditional greenland music viking-inspired on my opinion. I wish there was more bands like Of Monsters and Men.
No, but I build most characters based on songs or sometimes albums.
>>43609797
Could you give us some examples?
>>43608513
>traditional greenland music viking-inspired
Oh, what's this now...
So I checked OP' link and sadly I'm largely agreeing with the guy. It wasn't bad, but it was in no way, shape or from anything special. Non-genre commercial radio around here would probably love it if the record companies wanted it to be on the A list.
>>43608513
Meh, it was alright
>>43607413
Thanks anon!
I used this song on a campaign too, but more as background. This song was part of a collection of stories called "The 100 Stories of the Fox", part of the folklore of an imp-like people of my setting.
It represented an ancient war.
The "bees" were representation of insect-like creatures that came from other plane etternally on darkness, like the guys on this pic.
The "birds" were flaming flying beasts adored as gods.
And the "snow creatures with dirty paws" were these imps, that assisted the bird on the war.
I you liked that you will probably like this one too - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt7ox1M_XG4
I read that it was inspired by a story on greenland, about a kid that fucked up and run away from home, that eventually started to live with the fair folk.
You can see that the first chorus of the song:
Hold your horses now
(We sleep until the sun goes down)
Through the woods we ran
(Deep into the mountain sound)
Hold your horses now
(We sleep until the sun goes down)
Through the woods we ran
Is talking about him, running away on his horse to deep on the mountains and the woods, sleeping during the day and travelling at night.
While when they repeat it next to the end, it keeps gains streght. This part is suppused to be sing by the fairies, that dwell on the night, live on the deep of the woods, and sing the sound of the mountains.
Personally I feel that this music is perfect for the beggining of a story or a game.
>>43610079
Well, to say the truth, they started to explore other styles after they got more mainstream. Its sad because they really lost something on the process, but now and them there is some musics with the old feels, like the one that is an homenage to Hugh Glass,
I think that the music who has the most "viking" vibe on it is Your Bones, that is literally about a viking funeral - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXUloVYbchg
Their more mainstream music is probably "Little Talks" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghb6eDopW8I and King And Lionheart - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A76a_LNIYwE
But they still offer some good inspiration, imp.
Take Little Talks for example, its about an old woman who keeps hearing the ghost of her dead husband.
But the animation on the clip is about a group of adventurers on an airship, trying to help somekind of godess to go back her home, while dealing with a bunch of monsters.
I use Jupiter's Lightning by Coeur de Pirate for fight music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D0vQ1susoa_s&ved=0CCAQtwIwAWoVChMIuPmIkvSLyQIVS8JjCh0yHwbs&usg=AFQjCNFs9RUvpZN1HeQKKGg1CMKPVz3tmQ&sig2=yb8Sv1TUilKh4jofF_5QrQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWz0qVvBZ0
The unofficial theme music of Dwarf Fortress.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1gF0uhHsqk
Along the same vein.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDuR7ld-hGc
Used this in one of my games when an elven bard performed in a PC's funeral.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXKwVe1SBTA
This plays in my mind every time my barbarian lets loose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TNJQZLdSuY
Whenever our cybered up street samurai lets loose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntQOSkd3j_I
Used this to start off The Great Pendragon Campaign.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thTPoHw9psg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkHsJazkObw
I have incorporated Aqualung, Jethro Tull as a hobo-looking, half glass eyed water spirit called AL. M girlfriend got the reference but did not meta, as in character they had no idea that he was a waterspirit.
>>43611089
I always interpreted little talks as an old man taking care of his senile wife
